[Acute arterial ischemia due to tumor embolism after pulmonary resection: report of two cases and review of the literature] (original) (raw)

La Tunisie médicale, 2000

Abstract

From january 1984 to december 1999 we operate in our institution, 465 patients affected by lung cancer. In the early post-operative period we observe two arterial peripheral embolic events. Treatment consist in surgical embolectomy by Fogarty probe under femoral way. We don't observe post-operative complications or any functional sequelae. For the two patients tumoral character of the embolism was confirmed this work confirm the need of pre-operative precautions to avoid this complication that way be severe when in diagnosed or treated lately.

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